Re^2: Problem with a text-parsing regex

The instructions were that "--" was to be treated like a space, so presumably should not be part of the punctuation runs - I think it should print {|o'clock|}, for example, not {|o'clock|--}.

I do prefer your version of the word parsing to mine, but I suspect (?: '-? | -'? ) is what's intended. (There aren't any examples of "word-'word" in the test cases though - I could probably come up with one in Dutch, but I imagine they're pretty rare in English.)

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Re^3: Problem with a text-parsing regex by ibm1620 (Hermit) on May 09, 2022 at 13:16 UTC
I grepped my collection of text files (all English-language downloads from gutenberg.org) for `-'` and only found forty-'leven and fellow-'prentice. I've updated tybalt89's solution with your improvement. The contents of `$3` will contain a final space if one is present, so `{\|o'clock\|--}` is consistent with the instructions.	[reply] [d/l] [select]